Turn your son in knowing it’s the death penalty?

[TaupeLemur]

Kirk’s killer has apparently been turned in by his family - or persuaded to hand himself in.
Trump &’his supporters have been very vocal about getting the death penalty for the shooter.

would YOU hand your child over, knowing that the electric chair would be the likely outcome?

YANBU - I wouldn’t turn him in to die.

YABU - I would he’s a killer and deserves all he gets

So you have no principles. Murder and evading justice is fine when it’s someone you dislike.

But this person was happy to take someone else's life .
Has to be consequences .
Why should he take a life and then carry on with his own?
Prisons are mainly too soft anyway .

I am sceptical about the whole thing. Some kid? Made that shot? More likely a false flag to amplify the right wing voice. He'll probably turn up to court looking like he's on all sorts of meds, cause he will be. Patsy.

I believe in bad eggs and mental illness.

Innocent until proven guilty: I am not sure if this applies in US law.

I am not a lawyer and know little about the US legal system, but I believe it's based on the English legal system so yes, it's innocent until proven guilty.

@SnipSnipMrBurgess

cos you’re talking absolute shite. People on crack often do.

Also vaguely amusing that you feel sex crimes are beyond the pale - no problem seeing your son executed for that - but actual murder? No biggie, didn’t like the guy anyway, here’s your plane ticket.

So im guessing you are on the side of "he deserved to die because I dont agree with his political views"?

On Sky News it was said that a Pastor, a friend of the family recognised him and reached out to the family to turn himself in. That he went to the house and then the father persuaded him to surrender and they went to the Marshals office at 10pm last night.

It was only a matter of time before he got caught. The police and FBI already had his car, his DNA. They would’ve had him by this morning.

Perhaps he had nowhere to run? Perhaps they thought that by turning himself in, by admitting what he’d done, they’d spare him the death penalty?

Nah I just love and have immense loyalty to my kids. I would burn the world down for my kids (with exceptions of being a pedophile or a rapist).

Let me guess, you're pro life? 🤣

And here come the conspiracy theories. Sigh.

Me too

@Hoppinggreen

what if he raped someone? Would you let him get away with that too?

They'd have found him anyway, I'm that situation it makes far more sense to turn yourself in.

I know I should but I really don't think I could. I don't believe in the death penalty anyway but sending your son to be killed despite him having done something horrific isn't something I could live with

I would sooner hand myself in and claim I did it before handing my child over.

I would. He took another’s life, a father from two little children. He presumably knew the consequences of doing that. As difficult and gut wrenching as it would be I’d turn them in. They could kill again or be killed in arrest.

Immense love and loyalty for your kid if he’s a murderer, not so much if he’s a rapist. Strange principles you have.

Exactly he is 22, and had a plan. Not a kid that couldn’t make a shot.

I still disagree fundamentally with the death penalty.

The shot was not that difficult to make. Especially in a state with relaxed gun laws, like Utah. Lots of opportunity to practice.

I think this is where I am. But I'm not sure how you would avoid it in the States and get on the run.

No i certainly am not ‼️

Tbh, it's not really an issue as I'm raising them not to shoot people in the neck just because we find what they say deeply unpleasant and harmful.

Until he went on to murder someone else, and then you’d be in a pickle. Maybe your partner step in next time?